Technology Trends for Situational Awareness

Brandon Greenberg, MPA, CEM

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NYU International Center For Enterprise Preparedness ( InterCEP)

Global Risk Forum

December 17, 2014

AgendaI. Situational Awareness (SA)

II. Key Trends

III. New and Emerging Technologies

IV. Wrap-Up

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Where Does Situation Awareness Fit In?SA = “State of Knowledge”

3 Levels of SA

1. Perception

2. Comprehension

3. Projection

Shared/Team SA vs. Distributed SA

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Endsley, M. R. (1995). Toward a Theory of Situation Awareness in Dynamic Systems. Human Factors, 37(1), 32–64.

Technology Trends

1) Emphasis on user experience and visualization

2) Humans and computers working together

3) More “open” and “geo-based” systems

4) Data/information is the primary commodity

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Technology Trends - Drivers

1) Increasing scale and complexity in operations

2) Networked/net-centric world

3) Citizen participation is alive

4) Data/information availability and access.

5) Technological advancement

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Challenges

1. Defining “valuable” information.

2. Adequacy of existing data/information policies and procedures.

3. Ability to compare unique technologies.

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The Technology LandscapeTECHNOLOGY TYPES

I. Dashboards and Workflows

II. Open Data

III. SMS

IV. Networks

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

1. Where does the data/information come from? How is it gathered?

2. What is the “right” data/information?

3. Where are these technologies best leveraged in my organization’s operations? Can employees be leveraged more?

4. Is technology the best answer to the problems we face?

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Dashboards and WorkflowsINCLUDING: CROWDSOURCING AND MICROTASKING

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Disaster Assistance and Assessment Dashboard (DAAD) (Appalicious)

“Visualizes nearby

environmental hazards, and

allows local government to

identify community resources to

aid in recovery.”

www.appallicious.com/daad/

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Geofeedia

“Search, monitor and analyze

real-time social media

content by location, from

anywhere in the world, with a

single click.”

www.geofeedia.com

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Crisis Cleanup

“Open Source Disaster Relief

Mapping and Work Coordination.”

www.crisiscleanup.org/

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DeployPro

DeployPro allows users to submit GPS locations,

photos, voice recordings, and notes to incident

command and contains first aid and general

reference information for CERT volunteers.

www.deploypro.net

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SeeClickFix

“Report neighborhood issues and see

them get fixed.”

www.SeeClickFix.com

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TruvianLabs

“Truvian makes it easy to

create and share beautiful

maps and reports with your

GIS data.”

www.truvian.com

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MicroMappers

“Combine human computing (smart crowd-

sourcing) with machine computing (artificial

intelligence) to filter, fuse and map a variety of

different data types such as text, photo, video

and satellite/aerial imagery.”

www.micromappers.wordpress.com

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CrowdMap (Ushahidi)

Create your own crisis maps.

www.crowdmap.com

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Internet Response League

IRL enables and encourages

video gamers to support

response efforts by helping

organize and make actionable

the overwhelming amounts of

data generated by disasters.

www.internet-response-league.com/

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GeoQ

“GeoQ crowdsources geo-tagged photos

of disaster-affected areas to assess

damage over large regions. Programmers

can use the existing services and add

features to customize the GeoQ code for

their own community.“

Github.com/ngageooint

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Open Data

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LanternLive

“Lantern Live is a mobile app that allows users

to report the operational status of local gas

stations, find fuel, and look up power outage

maps from local utilities, while also accessing

useful tips and guidelines.”

Google Play Store

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OnTheMap for EM

OnTheMap is a free public data tool from

the U.S. Census Bureau that provides an

intuitive web-based interface for

accessing U.S. population and workforce

statistics, in real time, for areas being

affected by natural disasters.

www.onthemap.ces.census.gov/em/

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ShakeMap/ShakeCast“ShakeMap and ShakeCast are post-

earthquake information tools for rapid

situational awareness, using data from

seismic monitoringsystems to help

emergency managers gauge an

earthquake’s impact and plan response

activities.”

www.earthquake.usgs.gov

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Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)

The Humanitarian Data

Exchange (HDX) makes

humanitarian data easy to find

and use for analysis.

www.data.hdx.rwlabs.org

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Disaster.Data.Gov

This portal features disaster-related datasets,

tools, and updates.

www.data.gov/disasters/

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Open Humanitarian Initiative“OHI strives to revolutionize how

information is shared in humanitarian

response by engaging nongovernmental

organizations, academic institutions,

private sector technology companies,

donors and governments in a shared

vision that advocates for open data.”

www.ohi.nethope.org

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Rx Open

Rx Open is an online tool that maps

the location of open pharmacies

during disasters using Google Maps,

and also shows which pharmacies are

closed and those whose status is

unknown.

www.rxopen.org

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SMS

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FrontlineSMS

“Frontline builds professional SMS

management tools that help you

reach more than 3 billion people

with the phone already in their

pocket.”

www.frontlinesms.com

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Twilio Open Source SMS

“From emergency response to

community organization, Twilio built

the basic [SMS] communications apps

you need so you can spend less time

coding and more time making an

impact.”

Twilio Open Source Rapid Response Kit

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Networks

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FirstNet

“FirstNet is building the team that will

create the first nationwide wireless

broadband network dedicated to

public safety. See our current

opportunities and consider joining our

team.”

www.firstnet.gov

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LDLN

“LDLN is developing inexpensive,

distributed local data hubs and mobile

apps to immediately address

damaged communication

infrastructures that are unfortunately

common of natural disasters.”

www.ldln.co

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BRCK

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“The go anywhere, do anything,

self-powered, mobile WiFi device.”

www.brck.com

Thank You

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